Your Favorite Documentaries

[Tyguy]

What are some of your favorite docs? So far I've been told to see the following:

Grizzly Man
The Fog of War
The English Surgeon
Standard Operating Procedure
Man on Wire
Stevie

Anything else that I should look into?
A brief synopsis would be helpful if you are so inclined.

spank you very much

 

[Vegeta897]

Connections.

 

[Escaep]

1983: The Brink of Apocalpyse

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1630001170436508560#

An extremely powerful programme, this documentary focuses on 8 November 1983, a date now recognised as one of the most dangerous moments in the entire history of the Cold War. On this near-fateful day, a series of accidents nearly unleashed the Third World War. Senior figures in the Soviet Union had convinced themselves that they were about to come under nuclear attack from the West, and the vast Soviet nuclear arsenal of missiles, bombers and submarines were put on maximum alert, ready to launch a full nuclear retaliatory attack on Western Europe and the US. Armageddon beckoned. This documentary tells the dramatic story behind this sequence of events when Soviet fingers hovered perilously over the nuclear button. The intelligence communities in the US, Europe and the former USSR have never before admitted to the scale of this crisis.

 

[Warped]

yeah 1983 was my personal favorite, I shared it with my dad and he watched it too. Zeitgheist was sweet too, and 118: Green St was one of my favorites growing up

 

[dfc05]

At the moment, Man of Aran (1934). Gets some criticism for being more dramatic re-enactment than actual documentary, but the struggles filmed were still completely real and totally amazing (director basically just grabbed people who lived in the area and got them to do the film). Fantastic cinematography if you like seeing people living at the edge of existence, scrounging for soil and shark-hunting while giant waves smash at cliffs. Really epic stuff.

http://www.dvdjournal.com/reviews/m/manofaran.shtml

No matter how bad your personal situation in life happens to be, or how desperate you feel just waking up in the morning, watching Man of Aran will wrench your perspective so sharply that you'll feel much, much better about damn near everything before the closing credits roll.

Have yet to see the one with the original score. Just watched the British Sea Power version.

 

[StardogChampion]

American Movie

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/american_movie/

Smith's film is a poignant commentary on what it takes to make an independent film. It also happens to be a genuinely hysterical, crowd-pleasing romp. Trying to get his masterpiece, NORTHWESTERN, off the ground, but failing miserably due to lack of funding and support, struggling Midwestern filmmaker Mark Borchardt instead turns his attention to COVEN, an abandoned 37-minute horror film that he began filming in 1990. His hopes are to sell enough copies of the video to enable him to clear his current debts and begin moving forward with his real baby, NORTHWESTERN. The painstaking effort to get COVEN in the can and onto the screen for the film's world premiere provides the greatest laughs in this undeniably entertaining documentary.

 

[the cow says moo]

look guis im danimal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAaQNACwaLw

 

[unozero]

Grizzly Man

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogYDUmIigw0

 

[the cow says moo]

Midgets vs. Mascots
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4guUdHl2tU

If you have Netflix, WATCH THIS MOVIE.

 

[Shift]

This guy. Love him haha.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuB3kr3ckYE

Also love Universe, the Battlefield documataries and WHATEVER happened to Time Commanders? That awesome BBC show that put real people in the situation of battles in history and they used the RTW simulation to reenact them?

 

[AKIRA]

Connections.

What's it about?

 

[Vegeta897]

Technology throughout the ages, basically. It's really excellent.

 

[AKIRA]

Technology throughout the ages, basically. It's really excellent.

Will look into it.


I love pretty much anything from Louis Theroux and Ross Kemp on Gangs

 

[dfc05]

Does The Devil and Daniel Johnston count? Or is that a bio-mentary (yeah my mind is having a hard time with words right now).

I thought it was genuinely very good, even though I typically hate movies about musicians/artists/bands/etc.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJZOe65eA4Y

A really heart-wrenching, beautiful little film. The most awesome part is that Daniel Johnston actually kept insanely extensive recordings of himself throughout his life, which make up a big part of the documentary.